Our Team at the Cancer Ecology Center
Co-directors: Ken pienta and sarah Amend
Contact us at kpienta1@jhmi.edu or samend2@jhmi.edu
Brandy yeater
Brandy is our Center manager. Contact him at dyeater1@jhmi.edu
diane labuda
Diane is our Center administrator. Contact her at dlabuda@jhmi.edu
Ken Pienta: Ken is the Donald S. Coffey Professor of Urology, Oncology, Pharmacology, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He is Director of Research at the Brady Urological Institute and co-Director of the Cancer Ecology Center. Ken received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Johns Hopkins. After an internship and residency at University of Chicago, he did his Oncology fellowship at Johns Hopkins and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Coffey lab. He was on faculty at Wayne State University 1991-1994 and the University of Michigan 1994-2013. Dr. Pienta is a physician scientist who applies ecological principles to drive discovery as well as take care of patients.
Sarah Amend: Sarah is an Assistant Professor of Urology and Oncology. She is co-Director of the Cancer Ecology Center and Academic Director of SURE. Sarah received her undergraduate degree from N.C. State University and her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. She was a post-doctoral fellow in the Pienta lab at the Brady Urological Institute. Dr. Amend is passionate about understanding cancer through the lens of evolutionary ecology. Her research is focused on understanding the adaptive phenotypes that give rise to metastasis and therapy resistance to combat lethal disease. By investigating the cancer problem from an ecological perspective, she believers that we will find new questions - and new solutions - to centuries-long challenges in cancer research and treatment. Contact Sarah at samend2@jhmi.edu.
Brandy Yeater is our Cancer Ecology Center manager. In addition to keeping things running, he also is the Director of the Brady Urological Institute Biorepository and founder of the Brady SURE program. Contact him at dyeater1@jhmi.edu
Diane Labuda is our CEC administrator. Contact her at dlabuda@jhmi.edu.